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0012876

CMake

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2012-01-16 03:26

2012-07-09 06:52

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thesaint

Assigned To

Brad King

Priority

urgent

Severity

tweak

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

duplicate

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Microsoft Windows

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CMake 2.8.7

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Summary

0012876: Recognizing a PLATFORM_TOOLSET property for Visual Studio builds!

Description

Issue "http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=6929" [^] asks for Intel Compiler support with Visual Studio. Instead of generating project files (which I found rather complicated), it is often sufficient just to set the platform toolset properly. This is already done by CMake for Visual Studio Express and now I just want a way to set this property through CMakeLists.txt! I also added the required, trivial code change below...

Resulting in the following usage:

set_target_properties(${YOUR TARGET} PROPERTIES PLATFORM_TOOLSET "Intel C++ Compiler XE 12.1")

This also supports the windows driver SDK in theory and whatever one can think of. The bug potential is probably zero, so please include this in the main branch, since I can not expect every one on Windows to configure and build a custom CMake edition just to make my OpenSource project buildable on that platform... (I need the Intel Compiler, because Microsoft's support for C++11 even in the next iteration VS2011, is god damn inferior to everything there is)

Thanks a bunch!
Christoph Husse

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The thing you have to do is goto to the file "cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator.cxx" and method "void cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator::WriteProjectConfigurationValues()".

Now just patch the following code at the end of the method:

"
   if(const char* toolset = gg->GetPlatformToolset())
      {
      std::string pts = "<PlatformToolset>";
"

with this snippet:

"
   if(this->Target->GetProperty("PLATFORM_TOOLSET"))
      {
      this->WriteString(((std::string)"<PlatformToolset>" + this->Target->GetProperty("PLATFORM_TOOLSET") + "</PlatformToolset>").c_str(), 2);
      }
   else if(const char* toolset = gg->GetPlatformToolset())
      {
          std::string pts = "<PlatformToolset>";
"

Now you can simply set the platform toolset from within a CMakeLists.txt file by using:

"
set_target_properties(${YOUR TARGET} PROPERTIES PLATFORM_TOOLSET "Intel C++ Compiler XE 12.1")
"

I found this to be pretty slick, since now also the CMake macro can be used and you don't have to edit anything manually... Additionally, you can set custom toolsets for every single project.

This solves the Intel Compiler issue for me and additionally one can specify any toolset this way, like windows driver SDK and stuff like that!